Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1909 — LAWSHE TO SUCCEED CURRY [ARTICLE]

LAWSHE TO SUCCEED CURRY

Expectation In Washington Is That Indianan Will Be Governor. Washington. Oct. 29.—The general expectation here is that A. L. Lawshe of Indiana, the third assistant postmaster general who is going to New Mexico on a long leave of absence on account of his health, will succeed George Curry as governor of the territory of New Mexico next March, unless congress shall, in the meantime, admit the territory to statehood. Governor Curry’s resignation has not yet respzhed the secretary of the interior, but according to dispatches from the territory it has been forwarded, and is to take effect the first of March.